When David Cone heard about the Mets filling out their pitching rotation yesterday -- and ending their interest in signing him -- he was already considering a proposition to work as a late-inning reliever for the Kansas City Royals.
Based on what we've heard of Parcells and are hearing again, joining him in Tampa Bay with the Buccaneers must be considered a proposition as breakable as the mirror Parcells gazed into when he fancied himself finished with coaching two years ago with the Jets.
If it is the proposition itself, however, of which we get the impression that it can be true as well as false, this is due to the fact that we take a part of it to be variable (WL II, 77); in this case again we do not consider a single proposition, but a whole set of propositions, i.e., a propositional form.
Sinn Fein's Conor Murphy told the BBC: "We always were prepared to consider a genuine proposition and we have one on the table now".
But the Democratic convention asked us to consider a remarkable proposition: that a woman we thought we knew well -- for some, too well -- would turn out to be, as president, the best blind date we ever had.
Consider a true universal proposition, say the proposition that every finger of my right hand is less than 1m long.
It runs counter to our culture of immediacy, but I've found I get a lot of respect from people when I ask for 24 hours to really consider an important proposition.
This would be an extraordinarily high record under any circumstances, but in the light of the fact that in each case Marshall was appealing a lower court's decision, which lawyers consider a much tougher proposition than defending one, and, moreover, was seeking to persuade the highest court in the land to upset established precedent, it may be a unique record.
He has outlined that while the SA government does not currently have a fixed view, he is "prepared to consider such a proposition" and will provide a full response to the state parliament before the end of the year.
